Azed

I quite often manage to complete a large proportion the easier Azeds without any aids, but this is the first (at least for a while) where I was able to write in all … Read more >>

Nick:  Straight Azed this week with no real difficulty – 6/10. Two slight queries at 33ac and 6dn.       Across 2. Sober duke, festal possibly, ready to set off with hunt? (10) … Read more >>

A reasonably straightforward Azed this week, if perhaps a little harder than average.  I have a couple of queries which will no doubt be resolved swiftly by the usual suspects. Across 1 FIG … Read more >>

This was a standard plain crossword from Azed with the usual mix of precise cluing and unfamiliar words.       Often when I blog an Azed puzzle there are a few clues … Read more >>

I’ve solved harder Azeds.  Rather disappointed that there’s a wordplay I still can’t parse.  And I’m struggling to understand why Azed thinks the Grand Canyon is small? I’m sure someone will clarify though. … Read more >>

Usually when I blog an Azed puzzle everything is straightforward enough — do the puzzle, do the blog by Monday evening and schedule it for appearance the following Sunday. This one was different: … Read more >>

I got going pretty quickly with this one, and thought it might be a bit of a walkover, but the last few clues,especially in the SE corner, slowed me to a crawl. It … Read more >>

Nick:  This was perhaps the toughest ‘plain’ puzzle from Azed (other than the ‘specials’) that I have attempted – a definite 10/10 on the hardness scale.   But before the blog, something related: Well, … Read more >>

The usual mix of obscure words and Ximenean clues, although I have a couple of minor queries which I’m sure others can resolve. A crossword notable for three different ways of cluing the … Read more >>

This was a standard plain crossword from Azed with the usual mix of precise cluing and unfamilair words.       Azed’s puzzle always show how any word can be clued by breaking … Read more >>

A single unresolved wordplay and what appears to be a mistake by our friend Azed.  Difficulty about mid-range for Azed — not terribly easy but nonetheless solvable by mere mortals such as myself. See … Read more >>

A nice crossword of the type that Azed often sets. The preamble states “Apart from 1 Across, which is normal, each clue is really two clues, side by side but not overlapping, the … Read more >>

Another low- to medium-strength Azed, which didn’t keep me from my Easter eggs for too long, but provided good entertainment on the way. There seems to have been a rare lapse from strict … Read more >>

Nick:  Fairly straight forward puzzle this week.       Across 1. An imposition, endless blinking lowly status for oldies (9) HUMBLESSE HUM+BLESSE(d) [blinking ref. euphemism for swear word] 11. Virus causing a leaf … Read more >>

A reasonably straightforward plain puzzle this week, but I do have a couple of quibbles about the cluing, and one where I may not have understood the wordplay at all, so suggestions are … Read more >>